Rio Grande Republic (Newspaper) - August 15, 1919, Las Cruces, New Mexico s the People of The Rib Valley J Las New August 15 1919 IN TULAROSA COMPANIES ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT IN BIG BASIN nothing new to inform the the W W Cox this week The machinery so received ii now tud will be juat as i it gets sooner If I oil has not by the the will be Speed the drilling L when the word will be slow New is in receipt of a the company Y under the laws of the regarding their in the property comprises 5760 acres of which are located in the f the Anticlinal structure of in and 2560 acres in the Crow which is owned in fee will begin t work in the Crow Flat property rite first of September ally all of the stock is sold the present time though some still be obtained i is and shares are par lof f ices of the company are Muonic Temple Bldg Olean N C J Secretary company already enough lUI on hand for the completion of well and expect to have enough wells Buin Co Vilmont Tularosa Basn Co has of being the first company pears PEAR PACKING SEASON CLOSES MESILLA VALLEY PEARS BRING HIGH PRICES ON CHICAGO MARKET Mr A J Nichols who has had of the plant in Las Cruces this season will finish his work Saturday morning 32 cars of valley pears have-been shipped this season from Las Cruces 30 cars of No 1 grade to C H er of Chicago and 2 ears of to Crombie Co of El to be disposed of on local market The latter included to ripe to ship to a distance and all spotted fruit it was not desirable to send to the eastern market where our valley fruit is gaining a big name We understand the price received this year is considerably above that received last year the market for fruit being considerably better The pears are shipped to Chicago and then auctioned off to fruit com- mission men the boxes being opened for inspection The fact that they brought such good prices would cate they were packed in good shape and according to grade Mr Nichols will lave here the first of the week for Ordway Colo 14 miles from Rocky Ford where he will pack and ship cantaloupes He will take with him from Las Cruces about fifteen cantaloupe pickers and four lady Misses Anna White Borsberry and Willa Taylor and Mrs Haines who will act as camp cheff girting the tale of government stores Mr A C Cooley Director of Ex- tension at the New Mexico College of Agriculture has resigned his position to take effect September 1st bis accepted the position of Chief the Farm Demonstration Office of the U S Reclamation Service with his Lake City his of has directed that former home we to municipalities states PUBLIC SCHOOLS WILL OPEN SEPTEMBER 1 received by P M Bliss Many of the Las Cruces teachers ie Secretary of War thru the institute at Aug 25 to 29 The date for the opening of the Lus When Mr Cooley came to the col- charitable institutions also sehools is September 1 lege he had a force of one Postmasters as distributing A ln school self Today he has an office post also to employes in except for field force of seventy-five has up farm bureaus all over the state and has over 5000 young a committee or work He has been eminently tfl act for employees of each and has a hot of j department or branches and td Boy Scouts in not less than one case lot for cash with order all surplus sub- stores in your lone Sales to be made in any quantity de- sired no quantity to be less than one Birthday Party Little Miss Dorothy Nell Williams celebrated her eighth birthday with a delightful party at the home of her in in the Tularosa Basin in parents Mr and Mrs Daniel W section 15 township 8 Twin Buttes four of Valmont in Otero tb sihk the well to Meet though the ex- 2000 to 3000 feet I Oil Eagle Oil Company which will in the Hueco basin a i the Tularosa Basin has its out to select the well site I hts made arrangements for its pit ind machinery Co Co of Wichita has received a standard rig liams at State College Games were played on the lawn by the happy children The dainty day cake with eight candles was much admired anil enjoyed by children Mrs Williams served them with cooling refreshments of brick iee cream and angel food cake with favors Miss Dorothy was the of many dainty gifts her young friends among whom were the Master Billy Lindsey en Dan Williams Jr Mark Thompson Jr Marian Thompson Gay son Franklin Rogers Elizabeth son Betty Waterson Marguerite Boody Janice and Marguerite Smith PUBLIC SCHOOLS Supply Officer I foe following communication CRUCES department and other Athletics and one and ment departments in not less than English and Physical Education -ana out the state successor has not yet been pointed BENEFIT DANCE TONIGHT A the auspices of the Womans Improvement Association will be given at the Armory tonight proceeds for the benefit of the ming pool und The ladies thin week contracted for expenditure of nearly for connecting the swimming pool with the electric light plant the latter agreeing to soft water for the pool free of charge At present this water formed by the con- of steam is wasted in the irrigation ditch Owing to its the pool can be used earlier and later in the season wing to the warmer temperature of this water an it comes from the plant It will take a little time to make this change during which time the pool will be closed the change is completed Las Cruces will have a pool of which she can be proud So turn out to the hop Friday night and show your of the efforts these ladies are making for civic improvement If don't dance go anyway and listen to the music and talk with your friends Be a cMe lot or one original package flour etc These sales are to made on the basis of fixed prices which prices are to be furnished you as possible Sain to states and counties and to public institutions need not be paid for in advance Credit is authorized to be extended on orders for a period of not to exceed ten days from date of receipt of goods Seles to will be continued oh the basis of former orders except that if municipalities or other local ments owing to their charter and laws are unable to buy and sell we will ship upon consignment in not less car lots goods to be paid for cr returned within 30 days from their receipt Shipments of this kind are in the Junior High school The domestic science teacher is Miss Teresa Goodwyn of The school ig being re- paired and additional windows on both north and south are being added The are being and when the work is completed the school will lie clean and attractive Edith Gregg will be principal of the South Ward school Mr E E Lehman teacher of in the city schools is now here u occupying the Kelso house on Miranda street Mr Lehman has A M degree from the U of consin There is a probability that Mr teacher of manual training will not return this year and the board is on the lookout for a man to fill the position The Association will not meet until some time in tember and Mrs D F R Rice ar- rived home Sunday from Santa Fe to be made only when the mayor of hy auto Miss Grace Pebbles who N M and which is be- Goddard and J tallied to the well site 26 miles of Tuarosa The company has in townships 14 and 15 16 Geraldine Goodin Raymond Taylor Jean Sexton Virginia Vaughan tha Evans Edith McDowell and the hostess Dorothy Nell Williams at Bowie Arizona p delay caused by the col- i tf casing drilling has been re- are now being made and water connections near Deming stated that the Columbus well down 2500 feet with a four and f inch hole and a good showing N TO SALT LAKE CITY H H Brook representing the Line Canal committee of Las and El Paso has gone to Den r or a consultation with h officials and from there will go City Utah to attend the of the governors of the 1 Hates called by Gov L N Hart to consider means of the Federal Government filiation projects of the West of the western states i that means shall be get the full advantage of the bib USUAL INDECISION The biggest joke in Europe seems o be the Little Five now sitting at aris as successors to the Big Five are supposed to keep the peace ettie disputes fix boundaries and en- the orders of the Council In they fix nothing have no in- fluence over the warring factions Recently orders were sent the Roumanian commander in the removal of his troops from he city and the return of stores by his troops He re- with a firm refusal to obey and hat he was merely recovering property taken during the invasion rf by German-Hungarian Little Five countered power and that are now going to waste that will make possible of millions of acres of wd and feed millions of head in time of drouth RICE RETURNS D F Rice wife have spent three weeks PC where Mr Rice A in and directing of the State Course t After the course was Meted work reviewed the and LM On of the construction of the cement road between Las Cruces anil Mesquite three miles of the south ern end of the main roads are closed The public is requested to abstain i from all unnecessary travel and use of that part of the road to El Paso which is now being used by the con- tractor for construction purposes Henry Stoes Chairman County Board Commissioners Who is House and why is The question has remained except that he from Texas It now transpires that D H Miller partner of House's son-in-law drew the draft for the American form of the League of Nations who edge he bad never previous to that employment had experience in inter- national affairs of any sort The whole show has been a close family affair the or the head of the local either acts as the ment agent and supervises the dis- of the goods or appoints someone to so act Municipalities pay freight from point of shipment on any goods returned Circulars covering above and sales by parcels post mailed August 7th Complete list mailed today Major Q M Corps Get Hi Back Up The order to the Roumanians to stay So everybody's and the Roumanians will obey The council by repeated notes dis- covers what the most powerful dis- turber of the peace to do and hen orders him to do it In that way they keep up a pretense of authority For the A number of railway employees in Italy have come forward with an the government it pay that production might bt President Wilson struck the right chord when he served notice in his address to congress that agitators who seek to obtain special privileges by demand and by bulldozing the members of congress will get nothing for their pains but contempt and ob- President Wilson has shown by his past in labor's demands where he cUnds that he is the friend of labor and anxious to give what he is justified in giving in fact more than he M justified in giving So accompanied them stopped at Hatch for n visit with Mrs George Johnson COMPROMISE NECESSARY It can now be slated as a fact that the League of Nations will not be accepted by the Senate in its ent form without reservations or re- strictions America The League Is an and the senate does not propose that the future welfare of America shall be dependent upon its success If it is successful all the better If not then American independence and in- are secure Some weeks ago the bulk of public opinion was favorable to the DETROIT BASIN A STRONG FIELD DONA ANA COUNTY FIELD CON- ONE OF BEST IN SOUTHWEST Companies interested in the Detroit Basin of Don Ana county are full of faith in that territory and receive renewed encouragement very time an expert goes over the field Mr Cutshall head driller for the W W Cox company who went over the field before investing authorized the Detroit Oil Corporation to My er his signature that he considered it the best bet in the whole for a shallow field excepting ing The Beain will be a deep well field if oil is found there which Mr Cutshall believes it will The property of the Detroit com- was the first land leased for oil n this section of the Southwest tho not the first to be called to public at- tention this property are now he leased lands of several more local all with good land and all for development work The Detroit corporation is meeting vith satisfactory success in of its shares and will begin active vork the moment enough funds are hand to enter order for drilling outfit etc It Is a pleasure to be able to say hat there isn't a mite of jealously these several companies of ocal people or even of an outside in the Detroit Basin They going ahead on tha assumption hat what is good for one is good for nnd are encouraging the efforts if the first one in the field to begin vork If one meets success it is most certain the rest will also The Detroit Corporation have now offices in Las Cruces and Mr A H Loomis now in charge of the office having turned his business er to his brother for tht present that he might concentrate o the work of m its feet This week a joint stock company been formed here of men ted in other leases in the Detroit i among whom are Mr Shipe Mr brother of A H and Mr tance of the covenant as stands when he delivers an ultimatum as he did before congress its time to draw back and be satisfied with a square deal reasonable and fair wages and reasonable hours of labor Today public opinion is changing very rapidly for reservations and for an explicit understanding of what responsibilities America assumes un- der the league A few weeks ago the President was roundly cheered by spectators when ho laid the covenant before the ate Today the opponents arc as roundly cheered when they insist on reading the contract before signing LEAGUE TOO PONDEROUS Thanks to the inactivity of the Allied government and their failure to send supplies the ment of Russia is rapidly riding to its fall and the doctrine of Bolshevism is spreading also murder and rapine In this particular we have a fair Paving Estimates Received and Contract Signed A meeting of property owners and city officials was held Thursday ening to consider the bids for street paving After considering the bids the property owners voted to have the city authorities sign a contract and I example of what the council of the proceed immediately with the work of paving The bulk of the property of nations would encounter With practically all the nations large and small represented each with an argument for or against many weeks or months would pass before owners will pay cash for the paving fronting their property Bids Received El Pasc Co concrete foundation with El Paso Co reinforced E Paso Co plain Lee Moor Contracting Co reinforced Lee Moor Contracting Co plain between Lee Moor bid on plain concrete Estimate Bid 14281 yds Pavement increase an offer was made in the United States a commission on itv would be convoked Tht Kind vonr 3500 ft 25 3257 ft 50 1300 yds 700.00 77.78 1628.50 1040.00 Difference 1682.33 Par Fmt Main Street from Court street to Las Cruces Av front Main Street from U Cruces Av to Convent Av front Griggs Av from Water street to Church street front 3.86 The above unit price includes intersections on Main but property comers willl be assessed a slight additional charge for intersections to side streets excepting St comers as this charge has been figured in on the unit charge for paving Griggs street The Town will pay nil not included in the contract which will include expense attorneys fees advertising printing tors pavement in front of postoffice new water main on Griggs light cable and incidentals which will amount to It is contemplated to lay cable on both of Main street for electric and modem lighting will be installed an soon an the can be rained action could be taken A sensible alliance not the uni- verse composed of the Powers who ought for freedom and democracy could much more for com- mon good than an unwieldy bulk and small actuated by jealously and suspicion If America England Italy and Japan couldn't teep the peace and assure a deal for all then they couldn't do H with the aid of a dozen small nations in a military way Moral ierusasion is all humbug Morals count in the least with many and her allies and today als have no place in the thirty-nine ittle wars now going on But als backed up by a show of brute oree arc very effective Many of our as well an of Kl Paso have been anxiously ing news of the bringing in of Silves Cycle well in which has been delayed by lack of pipe line con- The well in Tuesday with fcn initial flow of 2000 NAZIMOVA IN RED LANTERN Nazimova star of the sensational screen version of Edith Wherry's The Red which cornea to the Theatre August 22 is ap one of the most dis- actresses of the age She was born in Russian Crimea in a town on the shore of the Black Seaf but as a child was taken to land and in Geneva instructed in the violin At she returned to Russia and made her first public appearance by playing a violin solo at a Christmas concert in her home town She then went to Odessa to her violin lessons but took a dramatic course instead Her first appearance was under the of the treat at the Artistic Theatre Moscow Aft leading woman of a Russian stock company she played nearly 200 parts in a wide variety of productions Since coming to America vn has played in both Russian and in English Ever since she came to the speaking stage her career has ben an unbroken record of successes In A Doll Kedda and Little she won the highest laurels She turned o comedy and in The Countess made an equally strong im- pression She made her screen debut in a tion picture version of War Brides ind later returned Ip her work on the speaking stage The Great Nazimova then began icr celebrated screen production of Eye For Out of the and her newest production The Red which excels in power beauty nnd elaboration her previous Mr Sum Shannon local nf A Co left this week for Denver Rock Ford and er of Colorado looking up the fruit and situation for his firm
